Implementing Intellectual Property Rights under a Development Perspective

6th April 2005 • Co-organised with UNCTAD

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Presentation of the UNCTAD-ICTSD Resource Book on TRIPS and Development

ICTSD-UNCTAD Roundtable
ICTSD is proud to announce the launch of the UNCTAD - ICTSD Resource Book on TRIPS and Development, to be held on 7 April 2005 from 9h00 - 11h00 at the International Environmental House II, Rooms Rhin and Aare.

The Resource Book, published in February 2005 by Cambridge University Press, is conceived as a thorough guide to the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). It provides a detailed analysis of each provision of the Agreement, aiming at a sound understanding of WTO Members’ rights and obligations. The purpose is to clarify the implications of TRIPS, especially highlighting the areas in which the treaty leaves leeway to Members for the pursuit of their own policy objectives, according to their respective levels of development.

Programme

9.00 - 9.30:

Welcoming Remarks and presentation of the Resource Book
Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz, Executive Director, ICTSD
Carlos Fortin, Officer-in-Charge, UNCTAD
Pedros Roffe, Project Director, ICTSD

9.30 - 10.30

Panel Discussion:
Guilherme Patriota, Permanent Mission of Brazil to the UN
Cameron MacKay, Permanent Mission of Canada to the UN
Adrian Otten, Director, Intellectual Property Division, WTO
Frederick Abbott, Professor, Florida State University College of Law
Carlos Correa, Professor, Universidad de Buenos Aires / South Centre

10.30 - 11.00:

Questions & Answers

Participants

Frederick Abbott, Professor, Florida State University College of Law
Christophe Bellmann, ICTSD
Johannes Bernabe, Permanent Mission of The Philippines to the WTO
Carlos Correa, Professor, Universidad de Buenos Aires / South Centre
Carolyn Deere, Intellectual Property Watch
Ragui El-Etreby Permanent Mission of Egypt
Carlos Fortin, Officer-in-Charge, UNCTAD
Hekmatollah Ghorbani, Permanent Mission of Iran
Khalil Hamdani, UNCTAD
Myrna Huggins, Permanent Mission of Trinidad and Tobago
Alejandro Jara, Permanent Mission of Chile
Atul Kaushnik, Permanent Mission of India
James Lankford, QUND
Bernice Lee, ICTSD
Jean-Cristophe Maur, DFID UK
Cameron Mckay, Permanent Mission of Canada
Giselle de Meléndez, University of Geneva
Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz, Executive Director, ICTSD
Sisule Musungu, South Centre
Angelica Navarro, Permanent Mission of Bolivia
Alejandro Neyra, Permanent Mission of Peru
Maria Julia Oliva, CIEL
Adrian Otten, Director, Intellectual Property Division, WTO
Davinia Ovett, 3D
Guilherme Patriota, Permanent Mission of Brazil to the UN
Pedro Roffe, Project Director, ICTSD
Maximiliano Santa Cruz, Permanent Mission of Chile to the WTO
Dayaratna Silva, Permanent Mission, of Sri Lanka
David Vivas, ICTSD
Martin Watson, QUND